soy sensitivty

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:31:27 -0600

I start my period with the hour if I eat soy based food, whether it's soy milk, soy bacon whatever. Soy can be found in the ingrediant of almost every food you buy. Is the smaller amounts of soy like the soy lecithin that is almost always in ingrediants capabale of hurting fertility if you are sensitive to it. I don't start my period when I eat those foods, but could it be affecting me without my being able to tell?

jennyren

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:37:16 -0500

What about the sensitivity of ovulation tests and why might I need a different sensitivity?

Ok, we are going to dispel a few old wives’ tales here and give you some facts

Firstly, virtually every woman in the world will ovulate almost exactly 14 days BEFORE she starts her period – not the other way round!! That's fine for women with regular cycles of 26-30 days between each period but the trouble is a lot of women have irregular periods or other conditions such as PCOS, a lazy ovary, previous miscarriages, endometriosis, currently breast feeding etc., etc.

So what exactly happens is this

In any one cycle and on average, 80% of women will ovulate normally but around 11% of women will not ovulate at all and another 9% will ovulate twice or more. The latter explains a lot of those unwanted pregnancies by Roman Catholics trusting to the "rhythm method" to prevent conception!!

Now the “average” woman ............is there such a thing? will have an LH (the hormone that triggers ovulation) level of between 5-20 mIU in her system. When the surge occurs the basal level rises to approximately 50-200 mIU and at this level ovulation occurs and the egg is released from the ovary. This means that for most women the 30 mIU ovulation sensitivity tests will be ideal.

But how will I know if they are not right for me? I hate to say this but it is trial and error. Firstly, if there is a problem and you don’t seem to be ovulating normally – DON’T WORRY – it is not unusual. The reason is usually simple and is down to the fact that each woman is individual and can have different results from ovulation tests – here are just 2 examples:-

We have a woman approaching menopause who notices the test line on our standard 30 mIU tests never seems to get as dark or darker than the control line or doesn’t get any test line at all. This means the level of LH never reached the level that is considered "normal" when the surge occurs. In this case the person should try the higher sensitivity tests (15 mIU) as this will pick up the LH surge at much lower levels. On the other hand we have a lady who is suffering from PCOS and this can sometimes (NOT always) cause the LH level to be consistently at a higher level than "normal". This woman will appear to get a positive result with our 30 mIU tests over several days and she is therefore not certain when she is ovulating. In this case we would recommend she purchase the lower sensitivity (40 mIU) ovulation tests which will better pinpoint the LH surge.

So what do you recommend for a newcomer to all this?

Try the normal 30 mIU sensitivity ovulation tests and if you find any problems in pinpointing when you are ovulating then try one of the other sensitivity tests and that should solve the problem

How dark does the test line have to be to show that i am ovulating normally and what if I get no lines in the test window?

Essentially at any ovulation sensitivity level if you get no lines at all in the test window then you either haven't ovulated or the test is not sensitive enough to pick up the surge so you should go for the 15mIU sensitivity tests. At any sensitivity level if you get no test lines followed by faint lines for a couple of days which then fade back to no lines then that is the perfect indication that you have ovulated normally during those days. If, however, you get no lines at all in the test window with the highest sensitivity 15 mIU test (as far as we know, no one in the world does a more sensitive ovulation urine test) for 2 months then you should contact us for advice as we may be able to help. The email address is shown below.

Honestly, i had NO idea that you could buy diff sensitivity OPK's - did any of you!?!?!?

chelsharmony

Question about HCG bloodtest!!! Plz DR Q or Ladies help!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:33:20 -0500

OK back in Dec I went to the doctor b/c I was having very heavy bleeding and very bad cramps. The doc did a blood test to see if I was preggo. She called me back and said that it was a 4 and anything less then 5 means that Im not preggo and I was losing it. I know that u dont have HCG in ur system unless ur preggo but why would it have been so low. Would that have been considered a chemical? Just wondering.

Katie822 trying for #3

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